Thanks Falko,
Does this mean that I cannot offer migration for sites already using mambo/phpshop without disabling php safe mode right across my Linux server?

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Mombo wont work with SafeMode enabled. Have you thought about using PHP as CGI together with SuExec or the suPHP extension. then your installation will be secure without needing PHPSafeMode. But the performance of this solution is not as high as with mod_php.

OK thanks Till,
This time I set up a new site in ispconfig and checked all the boxes accept PHP Safe Mode and extracted joomla 1.0.7 eCommerce to the appropriate web folder and started the installation.
The first page confirms that safe mode is OFF.
The install goes well and I can log in to back end as administrator but cannot access phpshop when i go to view my site all I get is a blank page.
If I install joomla first and then phpshop I loose the front end but can log in to the back end.
Also in the PHP.ini safe mode is OFF.

Thanks Till,
I`ve played around with the data base on my windows server and some how lost the phpshop, but that is not important at the moment as i can sort that out later.
The problem is I have 404 sef installed, when i change htaccess.txt to .htaccess as requested in mambo global configuration/SEO the file completely disappears.

I do not have a .htaccess file, but I do have an htaccess.txt.
If I create an empty file and name it htaccess the file is created.
I then rename it to .htaccess the file disappears and i cannot access my site.
Also if I rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess the same happens.

I do not have a .htaccess file, but I do have an htaccess.txt.
If I create an empty file and name it htaccess the file is created.
I then rename it to .htaccess the file disappears and i cannot access my site.
Also if I rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess the same happens.

shajazzi

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Which warnings do you get in the Apache error log when you rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess? What'S in htaccess.txt/.htaccess?

Now I try to create a file called .htaccess because i cannot see the file that i have renamed, I recieve FILE ALREADY EXISTS, but where is it?
I also recieved a crash error from Konqueror The application Konqueror crashed and caused the signal 11(SIGSEGV)

This appears when i try to access my site .

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.53 (Linux/SUSE) Server at www.englandshirt.com Port 80

Thanks falko,
I had a look at the threads you mentioned and no luck i`m afraid.
My problem is i cannot edit the .htaccess file because i haven`t one.
The closest i can get is to create a file and name it htaccess but this is not going to work so I change the file from htaccess to .htaccess and the file disappears so then i cannot edit it.
I do not know whats going on. I`ve come this far, all I want is frendly URLS.

Thanks falko and till,
you`ve been a great help but i still cannot get .htaccess to work.
I tried this to see if .htaccess override is allowed:

I deleted everything from my .htaccess and replaced it with this
Redirect /google.html http://www.google.com
then i pionted the browser to http://www.englandshirt.com/google.html and this works fine.
When replace Redirect /google.html http://www.google.com with the following

I copied the .htaccess that is running on my Windows server but still no joy. I also tried different versions of SEF .I tried about all versions of .htaccess code that I`ve found in the mambo forums but get just slight variations of the same error.